Word: peanut
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Billy's testimony was the extent to which he betrayed his deep sense of having suffered because his brother is in the White House. Because his brother's controlling interest in the Carter peanut warehouse was placed in a blind trust controlled by Atlanta Lawyer Charles Kirbo, Billy quit the business. Billy complained that Kirbo "made decisions I was unaware of and questioned every decision I made." And because Plains attracted hordes of tourists, including those who walked into his house without knocking, Billy decided to move 20 miles away...
...main reason he went his own way over the years, and the alienation made the President unnecessarily hesitant to direct his brother not to get entangled with the Libyans. According to family and friends, nothing hurt Billy more than what Jimmy did with the family's farm and peanut warehouse. Billy inherited a love for the soil from his father Earl, who used to tell him: "Someday you'll be in charge of things when you grow up. Jimmy's chosen the Navy, and you've chosen the land...
...Libyan money because he could not obtain loans elsewhere and was running short of funds. "I've spent all my time the past year in the drunk tank or the grand jury," he said, referring to an earlier, seven-month investigation into the tangled finances of the family peanut warehousing business that found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing...
During the Main Street stroll, a little girl gaped at the famed peanut farmer. "You're so changed," she said...
...helium. Dangling from the balloon was an 11-ft. by 5-ft. red, white and blue gondola. It carried the Andersons and 5,000 lbs. of ballast and supplies, including ten radios, a folding cot, a backgammon board and a week's worth of fried chicken, peanut butter and chocolate-chip cookies...